Royal Sunangel
Royal Sunangel
Here the details of the Royal Sunangel named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Heliangelus regalis WilsonBull. 91 p.177
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Heliangelus
Taxonomy Code: roysun1
Type Locality:
Author: Fitzpatrick, Willard & Terborgh
Publish Year: 1979
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
HELIANGELUS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Longuemare's Sunangel H. clarisse) Gr. ἡλιος hēlios sun; αγγελος angelos angel; "Genus HELIANGELUS. Gen. char.—Rostrum rectum, æque ac caput longum, cylindraceum, et ad basin aliquanto depressum. Plumæ frontales rostri basin non obtegentes. Alæ mediocriter validæ primaria externa falciformi. Pedes mediocriter validi, halluce digitum intermedium æquante. Cauda mediocris, subrotundata. ... All the species of this genus are from the Andes, and distinguished by the extreme lustre of the throat, which in most of the species is bounded below by a gorget of white or buff. Types, Trochilus Clarisse, Spencei, amethysticollis, and strophianus. HELIANGELUS MAVORS (n. sp.)" (Gould 1848); "Heliangelus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 16, 1848, p. 12. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus clarissae [i.e. Ornismya clarisse] Longuemare. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22)." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 105).
Synon. Anactoria, Diotima, Heliotrypha, Heliotryphon, Helymus, Nodalia, Parzudakia, Peratus, Warszewiczia.
regalis
L. regalis royal, regal < rex, regis king < regere to rule.
● TL Real del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico < Spanish real royal (Buteo).
● ex “Ouira Ouassou” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.) 1800-1802 < Tupí name Uirassú great bird, for an eagle (syn. Harpia harpyja).
SUBSPECIES
Royal Sunangel (regalis)
SCI Name: Heliangelus regalis regalis
regalis
L. regalis royal, regal < rex, regis king < regere to rule.
● TL Real del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico < Spanish real royal (Buteo).
● ex “Ouira Ouassou” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.) 1800-1802 < Tupí name Uirassú great bird, for an eagle (syn. Harpia harpyja).
Royal Sunangel (johnsoni)
SCI Name: Heliangelus regalis johnsoni
johnsoni / johnsonii
● George Randall Johnson (1833-1919) English lawyer, cricketer, collector in Australia 1866, politician resident in New Zealand ?1866-1892 (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Casuarius casuarius).
● Dr David Horn Johnson (1912-1996) US zoologist, Smithsonian Curator of Mammals 1941-1965, collector (subsp. Caprimulgus macrurus).
● Prof. Ned Keith Johnson (1932-2003) US ornithologist (subsp. Heliangelus regalis).
● Dr Hilary Richard Wright Johnson (1837-1901) Liberian statesman, President 1884-1892 (subsp. Illadopsis cleaveri).
● Prof. Oscar Walter Johnson (b. 1935) and Patricia Mary Johnson (1934-2013) US ornithologists (syn. Pluvialis fulva).
● Axel Axelson Johnson (1876-1958) Swedish Consul-Gen. for Thailand 1911-1912 (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (Pseudocolaptes, subsp. Pycnonotus flaviventris).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)